The Experiment

A university campus, summer break, a flyer on a bulletin board. Twenty strangers are divided into prisoners and guards in a mock jail. Hirschbiegel exposes the darkness beneath a social study.

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Oliver Hirschbiegel directed The Experiment in 2001. See Oliver Hirschbiegel's full filmography, where to start with Oliver Hirschbiegel, or where to go after you've seen everything by Oliver Hirschbiegel.

The Experiment was released in 2001 (DE original-language production), with a runtime of 120 minutes.